h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Is it going to rain, or should I wait 10 mins? https://darksky.net/ #weather

Emergency instructions
https://humantransit.org/2020/01/a-new-years-letter-with-unsolicited-advice.html #transit #climatechange

Museum of Neoliberalism https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2020/01/20-shops-on-a20.html #london

Scary real-life stories with Tim Harford, in podcast form. This time: safety systems that go wrong. http://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-3-lala-land-galileos-warning/ #podcast

Leeks! The only winter vegetable that hasn't died on me. Sow in March or April, harvest all winter. Makes a nice leek and potato soup.

Stopping libreoffice, even all the processes it forked
http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2019/himblick/stopping-libreoffice

Interesting math facts, every day https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/12/16/366-days-of-math/

Lukhash, who normally plays great glitchy / grimey chiptune music, plays an old C64 computer game tune on a Pocket Operator PO-28 Robot https://youtu.be/t_XH4du6BvE

SHA-1, a secure hashing function, is now even more broken. The function, used by git and older pgp versions, is vulnerable to a prefix collision attack. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/pgp-keys-software-security-and-much-more-threatened-by-new-sha1-exploit/

RFC 8674 The "safe" HTTP Preference https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8674.html

Adapting an iPhone for Astrophotography
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2019/adapting-an-iphone-for-astrophotography.html

Who owns the Post Office and which minister is responsible? BEIS, Cabinet Office, UKGI and Treasury all involved. https://www.postofficetrial.com/2019/11/the-post-offices-journey-into-disaster.html

Lack of oversight led to millions of public money wasted and lives destroyed https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/post-office-high-court-case-it-horizon-postmaster-prison-latest-a9249431.html

Getting a .gov domain name
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-a-gov-domain-name/

Every Christmas since 1825, the Royal Institution gives science lectures for kids and adults.

This Christmas, Dr Hannah Fry talks about maths: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000crbl

Previous lectures, including Kevin Fong talking about how to survive in space: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch

GiveWell's top charities
https://blog.givewell.org/2019/11/26/announcing-our-2019-top-charities/

Every Level Crossing In The UK
http://www.paulplowman.com/stuff/every-level-crossing-in-the-uk/

All coal is the same age, and we're not making any more of it. https://youtu.be/b34al8YmQSA

Home-made Christmas decoration. If Dulux are wondering where their paint colour cards are, don't tell them.